DANA COJBUC
Open the shore Residence for Young Talents / Festival Planches Contact Dana Cojbuc was born in 1979 in Romania, graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Bucharest, and settled in Paris after living in Greece, Germany, Slovakia, Finland, and Norway. Associating sculpture, video, and drawing to her photographic work, she confuses our gaze, sometimes seeking the point […]
ZOOM ON THE LUNAR ARCHITECTURE OF THE JOHN LOBB BOUTIQUE
From Paris to New York to Los Angeles to Tokyo, the House of Lobb has 19 stores worldwide. It all began in 1851, when the company was founded. The founder walked from Cornwall, his hometown, to London where he began his career as a bootmaker. He then headed to Australia in the middle of the […]
BOY & ERIC STAPPAERTS CONFLICT PAINTING THE ARCHITECTURE OF COLOUR
If the new museum volume embedded in the old building of the very neo-classical Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, in place of the dismantled patios, is an architectural tour de force, this new “museum within a museum,” designed by Dikkie Scipio (of KAAN Architecten), conceals another structural curiosity that could appear to be a veritable […]
« OBJECTS OF DESIRE » : QUAND LE SURRÉALISME INSPIRE LE DESIGN
This is the first time that the Design Museum in London has explored on such a large scale the impact of Surrealism on the world of design, and much more. Spanning 100 years, nearly 350 objects are displayed in four sections, probing the fields of decorative arts, furniture, interiors, fashion, photography, and film. Works and […]
ZERO WASTE GOAL, THE VIRTUOUS DESIGN OF ATELIER TIMON MATTELAER
At the age of 20, the young Belgian designer Timon Mattelaer bought a house in the suburbs of Ghent in the northeast of the country. “I’m known as a handyman and I planned to renovate most of the house myself. It soon became clear that I had no budget for furnishings. Credits: Atelier Timon Mattelaer […]
IN THE HEART OF THE DOLOMITES
A chic, designer version of the mountain refuge, perched at an altitude of 1,800 meters. This new member of the Small Luxury Hotels of The World chain resurrects a former sanatorium dating from 1912: a very ambitious project originally entrusted by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to the architect Otto Wagner, a master of Art Nouveau, known […]
KUCA FOTOGRAFA, PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE
Direction Novigrad, a fishing village on the Croatian coast, in which stands “Kuca fotografa” or the House of the Photographer. Once the home and studio of Nikica Karadiva, the first photographer in the region in the 1920s and 1930s, it suffered the horrors of the war in Croatia. Destroyed and condemned to abandonment, it was […]
LE LOISIUM WINE AND SPA : WELLNESS JUST A FEW HOURS FROM PARIS
Located in the heart of the vine-covered hillsides of Champagne, the enchanted landscape surrounding the Mutigny Resort hotel is enough to stand on its own. In Mutigny, in the Champagne region, the new 4-star hotel-spa designed by Studio Jouin Manku only opened in the summer of 2022, but it is already an address that should […]
GLAMPING CHIC IN MONTANA
Opened in June 2021, this adults-only ecolodge is located in the Blackfoot River Valley of western Montana. It is an integral part of Paws Up Ranch, an adventure destination founded on the land of a rancher from the last century, Paul Greenough. The man used to have fun marking his sheep with a big green […]
CYPRIEN GAILLARD : THE DEFENDER OF TIME
While bringing the Defender of Time back to life (at Lafayette Anticipations), Cyprien Gaillard gives us a glimpse of the ruins and disorders of our time (at the Palais de Tokyo). An initiatory exhibition in two parts that says a lot about our breaks and cracks and our dreams of reconstruction and regeneration. Once upon […]
YANN BAGOT : THE ALCHEMY OF NATURE
“Seeking to give body to the organicity of ink, tested by water and salt on paper, I have drawn a breath, immersed in a flow of air, light, matter. Body to body with the lungs of the world, to which our existences are connected. Yann Bagot engages in a real hand-to-hand encounter with the landscape, […]
AESTHÉ, THE NEW AESTHETIC SHOWCASE OF THE G R A M M E ARCHITECTURAL FIRM
In 2014, architects Antoine Prax and Romain Freychet decided to create their own architecture agency and named it G R A M M E. For eight years, the creative duo has been imagining multiple projects in different fields, such as 3D imaging, scenography, and design. Whether it is for their new collection of paper furniture […]
STUDIO MK27 WORTHY HEIR OF BRAZILIAN MODERNISM
“Born in the chaotic city of São Paulo.” This is how Studio MK27 presents itself. Launched at the end of the 1970s, under the aegis of architect Marcio Kogan, the architecture firm, which today has a staff of around 30, affirms its admiration for Brazilian modernism. A movement that it wishes to perpetuate while rethinking […]